The Post Office
22 AND 23, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368189
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1956
- List Entry Name:
- The Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- 22 AND 23, THE GREEN
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368189
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1956
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- 22 AND 23, THE GREEN
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE POST OFFICE, THE GREEN
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 22 AND 23, THE GREEN
- Statutory Address:
- THE POST OFFICE, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Tew
- National Grid Reference:
- SP3961029298
Details
GREAT TEN THE GREEN
SP3929 (East side)
10/77 Nos.22, 23 and The Post Office
27/08/56 (Formerly listed as Cottage
No.22, Cottage No.23)
GV II
Row of 2 cottages and a shop. C17, extended C18 and re-modelled early C19.
Coursed marlstone rubble with some ashlar dressings; thatch roofs with rendered
stacks. Single-unit plans plus added rear wing. One storey plus attic. Front has
3-light stone-mullioned windows with labels to centre and right units, above
which wall rises to contain small 2-light dormer casements; left bay (shop) has
a large ashlar 4-light canted bay window with moulded stone mullions. Doorways
between units have chamfered stone basket-arched surrounds below labels with
carved lozenge stops; a similar lower door to extreme left is the shop entrance.
All decorative features are probably early C19. Windows have lattice glazing.
C18 wing to rear of No.22 (right) has renewed windows. Interiors not inspected
but No.23 noted as having a raised-crick: roof structure.
(County Sites and Monuments Record; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.627).
Listing NGR: SP3961029298
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 251889
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 627
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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